ReactOS 0.4.16

77 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by marttt
(reactos.org)

16 Comments

mysterydip

an hour ago

Looks like a lot of improvements on long-standing hard-to-find issues. Kudos to the team and thank you for providing an alternative OS that keeps getting better

MisterTea

13 minutes ago

I do a lot of industrial automation and it is the one thing that keeps me boat-anchored to Windows. Every little programmable doodad like signal conditioners and temperature transmitters have their own USB programming cables and their own, mostly crappy windows config software. PLC software is another abomination, hopelessly Windows anchored, bloated GUI monsters, some built on top of Visual Studio (Beckhoff TwinCAT.)

I have donated to ReactOS in the past in the hopes of one day freeing myself from this hell.

Almondsetat

11 minutes ago

Why not spend some money on an uncensored LLM to reverse engineer or create an open clean room reimplementation?

Aldipower

an hour ago

Love it! Haiku, ReactOS and sure Linux. But if necessary, the real art of computing can be kept up!

giancarlostoro

29 minutes ago

One of my favorite projects, maybe someday it can be a true daily driver, I wonder if that's the goal for 1.0 is to claim that they've gotten it stable enough to run as though it were Windows 7 or something to that effect.

guitarlimeo

25 minutes ago

TIL that the GUI of ReactOS isn't based on React. All these years spent baffled that who would like to build an OS with JS, thanks to me only reading the headlines lol

kijashdkujdfhas

14 minutes ago

Well ReactOS did have a 15 year lead on the name over React...1998 vs 2013, going by first public release of each.

montroser

an hour ago

Quite the dedication have these people!

thataccount

an hour ago

This reminds me of the feeling of when Linux got graphical installers instead of long text based ones asking you many, many questions.

forinti

8 minutes ago

It's not only that it was text based, but that it failed in all sorts of ways.

I had a particularly bad afternoon in early 2000s when I tried to install Linux on various machines (4 or 5, each one with different hardware) and failed with all of them. Of course, I wasn't as savvy as I am now, but it's been years since I've seen an issue with a Linux install; although I might have to download and compile a driver for one thing or another, the install itself doesn't fail.

thataccount

3 minutes ago

Mine was in the 90s and concerned X11 failing or crashing due to the video card typically. Redhat 5.2ish or Suse.

tiahura

an hour ago

This seems like the sort of project that ai would excel at. /goal excel runs flawlessly.

actionfromafar

an hour ago

Well, Excel has AI now, so maybe it can help.

aussieguy1234

42 minutes ago

Excel writes Excel, which writes Excel...

Now we have an infinite loop